Ewing – List of Ministers: J
Here there is the text of Ewing’s Annals of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900 followed by some Supplementary material. Information about this Supplementary material is available here. Subjects dealt with include Abbreviations, the way place names are recorded: Recording Locations and Publications.
JACK, JAMES WILLIAM
JACK, LEWIS
JACK, ROBERT THOM
JACKSON, JAMES WHYTE
JACKSON, JOHN, Girvan
JACKSON, JOHN, Crail
JACKSON, WILLIAM
JAFFRAY, HUGH
JAFFRAY, JAMES A.
JAFFRAY, JOHN
JAFFREY, ROBERT LESLIE
JAMESON, CHARLES
JAMIESON, JOHN, Cairnryan
JAMIESON, JOHN, Firth
JAMIESON, NINIAN
JAMIESON, WILLIAM
JARVIS, DANIEL ANDERSON
JEFFRAY, JOHN, Douglas
JEFFRAY, JOHN, Johnstone
JEFFREY, JOHN
JEFFREY, ROBERT
JENKINS, JOHN
JOHNMAN, WILLIAM ANDREW PATTON
JOHNSON, THEODORE
JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER ORROCK
JOHNSTON, GEORGE
JOHNSTON, JAMES
JOHNSTON, JAMES BARBOUR
JOHNSTON, JAMES BROWN
JOHNSTON, ROBERT
JOHNSTON, WILLIAM, Loanhead
JOHNSTON, WILLIAM, Shieldaig
JOHNSTONE, EBENEZER
JOHNSTONE, GILBERT
JOHNSTONE, JAMES, Belhelvie
JOHNSTONE, JAMES, Arran
JOHNSTONE, JOHN
JOHNSTONE, MATTHEW POOL
JOLLY, ARCHIBALD
JOLLY, JAMES
JOLLY, THOMAS
JUBB, THOMAS EDWARD
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JACK, JAMES
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.191
Born at Newtyle, 1842. Studied at London. Married, 1863, Isabella Butter. Ordained, 1875, at Grimsby, where he had formed a congregation. Translated to Duns, West United Presbyterian Church, 1880, and to Chapelhall Free Church, 1884. Resigned, 1893, and became Presbyterian minister in United States of America.
Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 8th and baptized on 27th March, 1842, in Newtyle, Angus, the son of James Jack and Elisabeth Crichton.
Marriage
He married Isabella Butters on 20th November, 1863, in St George, Edinburgh. She was born on 26th January and baptized on 10th February, 1840, in St Martin’s, Perthshire, the daughter of William Butter, shoemaker, and Margaret Fraser.
Ministry
His ministry in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, had already begun by March, 1874, when the laying of a foundation stone of a new church building for the Presbyterian Church there took place. In May of that year, he was recognised as a licentiate by the Synod of the English Presbyterian Church and was ordained in Grimsby on 19th November, 1875. The congregation had begun two years previously when he moved from Hull, Yorkshire, England, and commenced services in the Temperance Hall. He presumably gave up his charge because, when he was elected to Duns on 3rd May, 1880, he was described as “late of the Presbyterian Church, Grimsby”. He was called from the West United Presbyterian Church, Duns, Berwickshire, and was inducted to Chapelhall, Lanarkshire, on 17th June, 1884.
In September, 1893, he was arrested on a serious charge, taken to Edinburgh and released on £50 bail. He voluntarily abstained from occupying his pulpit and the Presbytery agreed to await the outcome of the case in the Criminal Court. The pastoral tie was dissolved on 5th December, 1893: the Presbytery noted that he had gone abroad and did not intend to return and that he should not be given a Presbyterial certificate, until the charges against him had been disproved. He spent some time in Sterling Valley, New York State, USA. He eventually moved to a church in Jersey, Channel Islands, and then to one in Worcestershire, England, before retiring.
Death
He died in the 1st quarter of 1927 in Chapel-le-Frith, Derbyshire, England. His wife died there in the 3rd quarter of the same year.
Family
They had issue including:
(1) William James Jack born on 9th September, 1864, in Carlisle, Cumberland, England. He married Czarina Olliffe, on 14th October, 1899, at Christ Church, East Dulwich Grove, Camberwell, London, England. She was born in London, England, in 1872, the daughter of Charles Richard Olliffe and Maria Clarke. He was a minister of the Presbyterian Church of England. He was resident in Gibraltar 1934-39. He died on 28th August, 1941, in Dunoon, Argyll, and was buried there.
(2) James William Jack was born on 17th October, 1866, in Carlisle, Cumberland, England. His 50 year ministry in Glenfarg, Perthshire, is commemorated by a stained glass window in the church there. He was well know for his studies in Egyptology. He was killed when struck by a lorry during the blackout in WW2. He died in 1942 in Abernyte, Perthshire.
(3) Maggie Ann Jack was born on 26th August, 1868, in Dundee. She married John MacMillen, who was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He worked in the textile industry. She died in 1954 in Wirral, Cheshire, England, aged 86.
(4) Charles MacIan Jack was born in December, 1871, in England. He married Jane “Jenny” Frame in 1908 in Barrhead, Renfrewshire. He was minister of Martyrs Church in Paisley, Renfrewshire, for 44 years. He died on 3rd November, 1951, in Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Sources
Jackfamilytree; The Dundee Courier & Argus, 19th March, 1874; 6th December, 1893; The Hull Packet and East Riding Times, Yorkshire, England, 22nd May 22, 1874; 26th November, 1875; Glasgow Herald, 5th May, 1880; June 4, 1884; 8th September, 1893; 16th September, 1893
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JACK, JAMES WILLIAM, M.A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.192
Born at Carlisle, 1866. Son of foregoing. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Arngask, 1891.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Arngask, a place in Fife, Perthshire and Kinross-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.327, where a short biography is given).
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JACK, LEWIS
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.192
Born at Culloden, 1815. Studied at the Universities, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Ordained at Belhelvie, 1845. Appointed to Nova Scotia, 1848. Settled in New Brunswick, 1849. Married, the same year, Flora MacKenzie.
Supplementary Information
Background
He was born in Petty, Inverness-shire, about 1815. His mother was perhaps Jane.
Education
He matriculated in King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1835 and studied there for four sessions.
Marriage
He married Flora Jane McKenzie on 8th August, 1849, in St James, Charlotte, New Brunswick. She was born on 1st November, 1816, in St. Stephen, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, the daughter of James McKenzie and Isabella Sinclair.
Ministry
He was called to Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, on 23rd January, 1845, and was ordained there on 10th June. Later he was Presbyterian minister in Springfield, Kings County, New Brunswick.
Death
His wife died on 4th August,1880, in Springfield, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. He died in 1901 in Kent, New Brunswick.
Family
They had issue including:
(1) Thomas Chalmers Jack born on 26th October, 1850, in St Stephen, Charlotte County, New Brunswick. He was a teacher before engaging in studies which led him into the Presbyterian ministry. He served in the Maitland Charge in the Presbytery of Halifax, Canada, for seventeen years. In 1896 he was translated to the pastorate of St. Matthew’s, North Sydney, where he remained until May, 1918. He was Moderator of Synod in 1913. He died on 14th August, 1918.
(2) Samuel Rutherford Jack born on 23rd March, 1854, in New Brunswick, Canada. He married Jean “Jennie” Johanna McClelland, who was born on 5th July, 1858, in New Brunswick, Canada. He died on 3rd June, 1925, in Saint John, Saint John County, New Brunswick, Canada.
(3) Jane Isabella Jack born in 1856 in New Brunswick, Canada. She married Wallace Gow King. They had issue including Rev. Lewis Jack King (1884-1958).
(4) Marion Elizabeth Jack born in 1859 in New Brunswick, Canada. She married William Millet Salter in 1881. They had issue including Rev. B. Chalmers Salter.
(5) Anna Stirling Jack born about 1861 in New Brunswick, Canada. She married Rev. Samuel Rosborough on 18th June, 1884. She died in 1923 and was buried in Church Point Cemetery, Sheet Harbour, New Brunswick. They had issue including Rev. Wilmer Brydone Rosborough (1888-1967).
Sources
Archivescanada; The Aberdeen Journal, 18th June, 1845; Rootsweb; Familysearch
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JACK, ROBERT THOM, M.A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.192
Born in Lanarkshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Penicuik, 1895.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Penicuik, Midlothian. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.59, where a short biography is given).
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JACKSON, JAMES WHYTE, M.A., F.F.A. (Scotland)
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.192
Born at Dundee, 1869. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Cromdale, 1894. Translated to Glasgow, Lyon Street, 1896.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Cromdale and Advie, Inverness-shire; and Lyon Street, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.232). Thereafter he served in Charlotte Street, Aberdeen from 1903 (FUFC, p.411).
Family
His son, Charles Stewart Jackson, was a minister of the United Free Church: Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.443.
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JACKSON, JOHN
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.192
Born at Edinburgh, 1837. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, and Divinity Hall, Reformed Presbyterian Church. Ordained, 1863, at Girvan. Joined the Free Church at the union, 1876. The same year accepted an appointment to Belize, and married Agnes M’Cartney. Resigned, 1888, but before he was able to leave the colony he was seized with fever, and died, 13th December of that year. Mr. Jackson was, during the greater part of his ministry at Belize, Government Inspector of Schools, and in that capacity rendered important service to the cause of education in the colony.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
FRPCS, p.14; Couper, The R.P. Church, p.144.
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 27th February, 1858 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.207). In the Free Church, he served in Girvan, West, Ayrshire.
Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: John Jackson
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JACKSON, JOHN
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.192
Born at Glasgow, 1840. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Crail, 1874. Married, 1877, Jane S. Sim.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Crail, Fife. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.375). He retired in 1907 and died in 1908.
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JACKSON, WILLIAM, M.A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.192
Born at Mearns, 1805. Studied at the University, Glasgow. After licence Mr. Jackson became assistant to Rev. James Findlay, Airdrie. Ordained, 1835, at the West Church, Airdrie. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Died, 1869.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1835, Airdrie, FES, Vol.3, p.221. In the Free Church, he served in West, Airdrie, Lanarkshire.
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: William Jackson
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 8/10/1869, minister at Airdrie, Inventory, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/62
25th August, 1836, Eighth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.146 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
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JAFFRAY, HUGH
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.192
Born at Irvine, 1813. Studied at the University, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Holytown, 1845. Married Millicent R. F. Walker. Became senior minister, 1872. Died, 1881.
Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 12th and baptized on 17th November, 1813, in the Relief Congregation in Irvine, Ayrshire, the son of Robert Jaffray and Isabella Fergusson. He had a brother, John Ferguson Jaffrey, who became a probationer of the Free Church but never got a charge.
Education
He attended Irvine Academy, Ayrshire, and a boarding school at Ardoch Cottage, Dunbartonshire. He then entered the office of a lawyer in Glasgow and attended the Arts classes in the University there, matriculating in 1827. But on deciding to enter the ministry, he studied Divinity at Edinburgh University. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1843-44.
Marriage
He married Millicent Rebecca Fleming Walker. This was registered in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, on 28th September, 1851, and in Irvine, Ayrshire, on 12th October, 1851. She was born in March, 1811, in Irvine, Ayrshire, the daughter of Thomas Walker and Mary Fleming.
Ministry
He was licensed prior to the Disruption. He was assistant to Henry Duncan in Ruthwell, Dumfries-shire before being ordained in Holytown, Lanarkshire, on 9th January, 1845. He resigned his charge in 1873 due to failing health and retired to Irvine.
Death
He died on 21st February, 1881, in Irvine, Ayrshire. His widow thereafter resided at 8 Merchiston Crescent, Edinburgh, and she died there on 16th May, 1891.
Family
They had issue including:
(1) Margaret H. Jaffrey born about 1853 in Bothwell, Lanarkshire. She married John Leiper, a Free Church minister.
Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites, 15th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/212
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Hugh Jaffrey
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 25/4/1881, sometime Writer, Glasgow, thereafter Minister, Free Church, Holytown, afterwards residing in Irvine, d. 21/02/1881 at Irvine, testate, Will, Ayr Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC6/46/14; 30/4/1881; Ayr Sheriff Court, NRS SC6/44/43
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Jaffrey or Fleming or Walker, Millicent Rebecca 23/6/1891, formerly residing Irvine, afterwards at 8 Merchiston Crescent, Edinburgh, widow of Rev. Hugh Jaffrey, Irvine, d. 16/05/1891 at Edinburgh, testate, Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/253; Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/2
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JAFFRAY, JAMES A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.192
Born in Aberdeenshire. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Blackburn, Aberdeenshire, 1896.
Supplementary Information
James Alexander Jaffray
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Blackburn, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.422, where a short biography is given).
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JAFFRAY, JOHN
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.192
After serving at Glamis, Dundee, and Paisley, became, 1841, agent for the schemes of the Church of Scotland. He continued to hold the same position in the Free Church. The office being strictly ecclesiastical, Mr. Jaffray received ordination from the Presbytery of Edinburgh in June 1843. A very large part of the details in connection with the organising of the Free Church, especially in connection with her missionary schemes, was carried out by Mr. Jaffray. Retired in 1853. Died, 1858.
Supplementary Information
Background
He was baptized on 6th June, 1804, in St Nicholas, Aberdeen, the son of Alexander Jaffray, builder, and Margaret Mitchell.
Marriage
He married Isabella Black on 7th May, 1832, in Dundee. She was born in Dundee, about 1791, the daughter of James Black, sailing master, RN, and Isabella Boath?.
Ministry
He served the Free Church in the administrative duties that he had been attending to prior to the Disruption. He was ordained by the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh, on 15th June, 1843, on his being appointed Secretary to the Mission Board. He presented his resignation due to ill health in May, 1853. He was surely the Rev John Jaffray, Edinburgh, who purchased the property in the High Street, Edinburgh, which had been John Knox’s home, and restored it “in a very chaste and tasteful manner – and now presents much the same appearance which it may be supposed to have done in the days of Knox”.
Death
He died on 29th October, 1858, at his home, 60 Frederick Street, Edinburgh (Registration: 1858 685/7 393 Heriot and Warriston). His wife died on 4th May, 1866, at 60 Frederick Street, Edinburgh (Registration: 1866 685/2 26 St Andrew (Edinburgh)).
Family
There is no evidence that he had issue.
Publications
See separate document here.
Sources
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, 21st June, 1843, p.3; 25th May, 1853, p.4; Glasgow Herald, 20th May, 1853
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JAFFREY, ROBERT LESLIE, M.A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.193
Born at Aberdeen, 1864. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at Camelon, Falkirk, 1890. Translated to St. John’s, Edinburgh, 1893.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Camelon, Stirlingshire; and St. John’s, Edinburgh. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p. 30). Thereafter he served in the united congregation of Martyrs and St John’s, Edinburgh (FUFC, p.19, where a short biography is given).
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JAMESON, CHARLES
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.193
Born at Kincardine-on-Forth, 1807. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Pathhead, 1840. [Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission]. Married, 1851, Grace Chalmers. Died, 1870.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1840, Pathhead, FES, Vol.5, p.106. In the Free Church, he served in Pathhead, Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Family
Chalmers Tree.
Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Maynooth, 9 April, 1845, NRS GD112/51/171
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Charles Jameson
Crown Office precognitions, 1862: Precognition against Michael Berry for the crime of theft by housebreaking at Collinswood House, Burntisland, Fife; Victim: Charles Jameson, reverend, Pathhead, Dysart, Fife, 1862, NRS AD14/62/170; Trial of the above: guilty, four years penal servitude, NRS JC26/1862/8
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 8/3/1870, minister of the Free Church, Pathhead, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/42
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Jameson Mrs, alias Chalmers, Grace, 18/6/1874, residing at Polwarth Terrace in Edinburgh, relict of Reverend Charles Jameson, Inventory, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/168; Holograph Trust Settlement, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/151
Two sermons preached in the Free Church of Pathhead, on February 13, 1870, being the sabbath after the funeral of the Rev. Charles Jameson, David Couper. Kirkcaldy, W.L. Whyte & Co., 1870
Second Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Schedule of Queries and Additional Declarations, Appendix 3, p.771
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JAMIESON, JOHN
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.193
Born at Edinburgh, 1820. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Cairnryan, 1854. Married, 1862, Mary Spittal. For many years he was clerk of the Free Church Presbytery of Stranraer and of the Free Church Synod of Galloway.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Cairnryan, Wigtownshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.122). He retired in 1900 and died in 1908.
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JAMIESON, JOHN, M.A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.193
Born at Arbroath, 1846. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Firth, Orkney, 1880. Married, 1884, Helen Watt. Translated to Canonbie, 1892.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Firth and Stennis, Orkney; and Canonbie, Dumfries-shire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.81, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1917 and died in 1929.
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JAMIESON, NINIAN
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.193
Born, 1829. Studied at the New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Markinch, 1853. Died, 1857.
Supplementary Information
Background
He was born on 22nd March, 1829, in Rothesay, Bute, the son of Niel Jamieson, fish curer and Provost of Rothesay, and Mary Bannatyne. For some family connections, see the Bannatyne Tree.
Education
He attended Edinburgh University. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1848-52.
Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Markinch, Fife.
Death
He died on 14th May, 1857, at the Free Church Manse, Markinch, Fife.
Family
There is no evidence he ever married.
Publication – by him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 21/9/1858, residing at Markinch, Cupar Sheriff Court, NRS SC20/50/29
Sources
Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 8th May, 1848; 18th May, 1857
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JAMIESON, WILLIAM
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.193
Born at Pulteneytown, Wick, 1859. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Castle-Douglas, 1887. Married, 1897, Jessie Campbell Low.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Castle-Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.112, where a short biography is given). He became joint minister after local union in 1923. He retired later that year and died in 1935.
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JARVIS, DANIEL ANDERSON
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.193
Born, 1830. Studied at the New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Bonhill, 1855. Died, 1856.
Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1830 in Glasgow, the son of John Jarvis and Janet Anderson, shoe worker.
Education
He matriculated at Glasgow University in 1845. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1850-54.
Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Bonhill, Dunbartonshire.
Death
He died on 21st November, 1856, at his parents’ home, 125 Candleriggs Street, Glasgow.
Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 20/2/1857, minister of the Free Church at Bonhill, thereafter residing at 125 Candleriggs Street, Glasgow, brother of William Jarvis, I, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/43
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JEFFRAY, JOHN
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.193
Born, 1822. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Douglas, 1846. Married, 1856, Janet Golder. Translated, 1858, to Gateshead. Died, 1872.
Supplementary Information
John Jeffrey
Background
He was born on 29th March, 1822, in Girthon, Kirkcudbrightshire, the son of Robert Jeffrey, the parish minister there, and Janet Thomson. Robert Jeffrey became a Free Church minister. Janet Thomson was the daughter of James Thomson and Dorothea Brown. James Thomson was the parish minister in Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbrightshire – see FES, Vol.2, p.390; and Dorothea Brown was a daughter of Samuel Brown of Barharrow, minister of Kirkmabreck. This Samuel was the son of another Samuel Brown, also minister of Kirkmabreck – for them see FES, Vol.2, p.368.
Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1849-52, where his name is recorded as John F. Jaffray.
Marriage
He married Janet Golder on 17th June, 1856, in Douglas, Lanarkshire. She was baptized on 9th February, 1823, in Douglas, Lanarkshire, the daughter of John Golder, watchmaker, and Catherine Dougald.
Ministry
He was licensed by the Free Presbytery of Kirkcudbright on 12th June, 1844. In the Free Church, he served in Douglas, Lanarkshire; he was called to the English Presbyterian congregation in Gateshead, County Durham, England, on 25th May, 1858. He was inducted there on 14th September. After the induction service there was the customary dinner for 70 ministers and friends; and an evening soirée when 350 sat down to tea. In January, 1871, he was presented with a purse of 60 guineas from his congregation and friends as a mark of their esteem and respect. His outstanding literary abilities are also mentioned. Moreover, he was designated “K.B.” in the newspaper report (and “K.D.” in a later one);and it was noted that he was about to leave them. His resignation was reluctantly accepted by the Presbytery on 7th February, 1871, the reason given being the need to remove to a warmer climate on account of his wife’s health. However, he didn’t remove and his wife died shortly thereafter. This was followed by his own death.
Deaths
He died in the 2nd quarter of 1872 in Gateshead, County Durham, England. His wife died on 30th August, 1871, at 9 Catherine Terrace, Gateshead.
Family
They had issue including:
(1) Catherine Dorothea Jeffrey born on 1st June, 1857, in Douglas, Lanarkshire. She died there the following year.
(2) Mary Ann Eleanor Jeffrey born on 7th January, 1859, in Gateshead, County Durham, England.
(3) Gertrude Agnes Jeffrey born in December, 1860, at Catherine Terrace, Gateshead, County Durham, England. She was a governess.
(4) Harold Brown Jeffrey born on 26th October, 1862, in Gateshead, County Durham, England. He was a merchant’s clerk.
(5) Hilda Janetta Jeffrey born in the 2nd quarter of 1865 in Gateshead, County Durham, England. She was a governess.
Publications – by him
Lays of the revolutions, and other poems, preface dated, Douglas, November 1849, Edinburgh, J. Menzies, 1850?
Britain’s sin and Britain’s punishment, the conclusion of a sermon preached in the Free Church, Douglas, on the national fast-day, April 25th, Edinburgh, John Greig and Son, 1854
Sources
Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 15th July, 1844; The Newcastle Courant, England, 28th May, 1858; 17th September, 1858; 14th January, 1859; 21st December, 1860; 31st October, 1862; 27th January, 1871; 10th February, 1871; 1st September, 1871
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JEFFRAY, JOHN
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.193
Born at St. Ninians, 1849. Studied at the Universities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Johnstone, 1878. Translated to St. Thomas’, Greenock, 1887; and to Shettleston in November of the same year. Resigned, 1892, to devote himself to evangelistic work, and subsequently went to England.
Supplementary Information
Background
He was born about 1849 in St Ninian’s, Stirlingshire.
Education
He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1873-77.
Ministry
He was assistant to Robert MacDonald, North Leith. He was elected to Jedburgh as colleague and successor to John Purves, and to Beith, Ayrshire, and he was twice elected to Montrose, as colleague and successor to William Nixon but he chose to be settled in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, where he was ordained on 28th March, 1878. He was elected to Maxwelltown in 1883, but remained in Johnstone. On 22nd November, 1886, he was elected to St. Thomas’, Greenock, Renfrewshire, as colleague and successor to William Laughton, and on 8th February, 1887, he was inducted there. He was later translated to Shettleston, Glasgow, about November that year. Within four months of his arrival “a neat and comfortable gallery, giving additional accommodation for fully 100” was added. He resigned his charge on 7th June, 1892.
Source
Glasgow Herald, 6th March, 1888
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JEFFREY, JOHN
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.193
Born at Glasgow, 1853. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained to Rio Tinto, Southern Spain, 1887. Translated to Huelva, Spain, 1895.
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Life and Ministry
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.529). He retired in 1910.
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JEFFREY, ROBERT
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.193
Born at Ecclefechan, 1786. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Girthon, Kirkcudbright 1818. Married, 1820, Janet Thomson. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Died, 1844.
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Life and Ministry
1818, Girthon, FES, Vol.2, p.410. He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 20th December, 1805 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.152). In the Free Church, he served in Girthon and Anwoth, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Family
His son – John Jaffray – was a Free Church minister.
Publications – by him
Godly sincerity, a sermon delivered at Auchencloy, in the parish of Girthon, 16th August 1835, on occasion of a collection for erecting a monument to the memory of the martyr Robert Fergusson, Edinburgh, Waugh and Innes, 1835
Free Church Pulpit, Vol.1, p.49, Lot’s flight from Sodom, Genesis 19:15-17
Publications – about him
Court of Session: Bill Chamber Processes: Rev. Robert Jeffrey v Alexander Murray, 1826, CS271/68309; John Birtwhistle (Bertwhistle) v Revd. Robert Jeffrey & others Trustees & Executors of Alexander Harper, 1829 NRS CS271/68172
Court of Session Extracted Processes: Decreet finding the letters orderly proceeded and refusing the interdict, Alexander Murray Esq and Mrs Jane Macartney v the Rev Robert Jeffrey, July 1828, NRS CS44/154/11
Papers of the Murray Family of Broughton, Wigtownshire, and Cally, Kirkcudbrightshire: Papers relating to action of suspension and interdict at the instance of Rev Robert Jeffrey, minister of Girthon, against Alexander Murray of Broughton, for preventing demolition of the Gatehouse Academy buildings, 8th November, 1826 – 6th September, 1827, NRS GD10/1279
The second coming of Christ, being the substance of two discourses preached in the Free Church, Gatehouse, on the 17th of March, 1844, after the funeral of the Rev. Robert Jeffrey, Samuel Smith, Kirkcudbright, 1844
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 21/4/1845, resided in Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court, NRS SC16/41/13
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 1, p.6 and Appendix 1, Table 3, p.18
8th September, 1836, Seventh Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.354 [For the questions which are being answered, see Queries]
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JEFFREY, WILLIAM, M.D., L.R.C. P. (Edinburgh)
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.193
Born at Leith, 1846. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Torphichen, 1872. Married, 1875, Margaret Inglis. Translated to St. Paul’s, Glasgow, 1875; and to Kilsyth, 1889.
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Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Torphichen, West Lothian; St. Paul’s, Glasgow; and Kilsyth, Stirlingshire.This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.50). He died in 1910.
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JENKINS, JOHN, M.A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.194
Born at Elgin, 1835. Studied at the University, Aberdeen, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Culross, 1871. Translated to St. Peter’s, Dundee, 1876. Married, 1878, Catherine Henderson; and, 1884, Annie G. Couper.
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Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Culross, Fife; and St. Peter’s, Dundee. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.389). He retired in 1905 and died in 1906.
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JOHNMAN, WILLIAM ANDREW PATTON, M.A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.194
Born at Fossoway, 1837. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Darlington, 1865. Translated to St. George’s, Hawick, 1880.
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Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Hawick, Roxburghshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p. 83, where a short biography is given). He applied for a Colleague and Successor in 1911. He died in 1923.
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JOHNSON, THEODORE, M.A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.194
Born in Shetland, 1863. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Strathblane, 1889. [His surname is Johnston in Vol. 2.]
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Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Strathblane, Stirlingshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.276).
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JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER ORROCK, D.D. (Glasgow)
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.194
Born at East Wemyss, 1840. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Cambuslang, 1868. Married, 1869, Amy H. Gull and. Translated to Westbourne, Glasgow, 1877.
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Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire; and Westbourne, Glasgow. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.258). He became senior minister in 1896. He died in 1905.
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JOHNSTON, GEORGE
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.194
Born in parish of Foveran, 1840. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. Ordained at New Marnoch, 1871. Married, the same year, Charlotte Thom.
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Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in New Marnoch, Aberdeenshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.447). He retired in 1900 and died in 1917.
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JOHNSTON, JAMES
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.194
Born in Roxburghshire, 1819. Studied at the Universities, London and Edinburgh, and Divinity Hall, English Presbyterian Church. Ordained, 1853, missionary to China. His health obliged Mr. Johnston to leave that field in 1856. Admitted to the Free Church, 1858. Settled the same year at St. James’, Glasgow. Married, 1858, Margaret Corson; and, 1869, Helen B. Macfee. In 1877 Mr. Johnston retired to London, where he laboured in connection with the General Council on Education in India, and the Society for Christian Vernacular Literature.
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Background
He was born on 18th December, 1819, in Stitchell, Roxburghshire, the son of Peter Johnston and Agnes Wilson.
Education
He trained in theology in the English Presbyterian College, and in teaching methods in the Free Church Normal School in Glasgow.
Marriage
He married:
(1) Margaret Corson in the 3rd quarter of 1858 in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. She was born on 1st June, 1823, in Dumfries, the daughter of James Corson, baker, and Janet Reid.
(2) Ellen Bland Macfie on 6th January, 1869, at Parkgate Church, Cheshire, England, by David Thorburn, the great uncle of the bride. She was born on 31st December, 1840, in Leith, Edinburgh, the daughter of Robert Andrew Macfie, a businessman and later an M.P., and Caroline Eliza Easton. Robert Macfie was both “of Dreghorn Castle, Colinton” and “of Ashfield Hall, Cheshire”.
Ministry
He was ordained on 22nd April, 1853, in Manchester, Lancashire, England. He left Southampton for Amoy, China, on 14th July, 1853. He was a colleague of William Chalmers Burns. He intended to major in educational work, but in fact planted a strong church. He extended the work to Pechuia. He was elected to St. James’, Glasgow, in March, 1858. After his ministry in Glasgow, he moved to London in 1880.
Death
He died on 16th October, 1905, at St. Leonards on Sea, Hastings, Sussex, England. He is said to have been buried at Willesden Churchyard, London, England. Margaret Corson or Johnston died on 26th June, 1865, at 4 Oakley Terrace, Glasgow (Registration: 1865 644/2 1324 High Church). Ellen Bland Macfie or Johnston died on 15th September, 1933, in Hastings, Sussex, England.
Family
He had issue including, by his first wife:
(1) Jessie Marcia Johnston born on 8th October, 1861, in Calton, Glasgow. She took up her father’s missionary work in Amoy in 1885. She died in St Leonards, Hastings, Sussex, England, on 24th March, 1907. A book about her missionary work is called Jin Ko-Niu.
(2) Margaret Lindsay Johnston born on 27th January, 1863, at 2 Oakley Place, Glasgow. She served as a missionary in Damascus. She died in December, 1953, in St Leonards, Hastings, Sussex, England.
And by his second wife:
(3) George Patrick Noel Johnston born on 13th December, 1869, in High Church, Glasgow. He became a minister – he was assistant minister if Regent Square Presbyterian Church in London, England, and had been accepted for missionary work. He died on 25th August, 1896, in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. It was thought that his heart stopped with the shock of the cold water in the river when he went swimming.
(4) Caroline Easton Johnston born on 13th December, 1870, but registered in 1871 in High Church, Glasgow. She died on 20th March, 1957, in Hastings, Sussex, England.
(5) Robert Macfie Johnston born on 31st January, 1872, in High Church, Glasgow. He married Marguerite Georgie Rundle on 17th May, 1919, in Kensington, London, England. He graduated M.B. from the University of London, and received his M.R. from the College of Surgeons, England; he served in WW1. He died on 26th March, 1957, in Hastings, Sussex, England.
(6) Ellen Bland Johnston born on 20th December, 1874, but registered in 1875 in Dennistoun, Glasgow. She died in the 1st quarter of 1951 in Hastings, Sussex, England.
(7) James Horace Johnston born on 25th June, 1876, in Dennistoun, Glasgow. Around 1901-2 he was assistant minister of Grange Road Presbyterian Church, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. In 1903-04, he was assistant at St Paul’s Presbyterian Church in South Croydon, London, England. The following year he was ordained on 23rd June at Bow Road, East London, England. While there he created an active centre of social work and oversaw the building of a new hall for a men’s club. In 1911 he was called to Belgrave Presbyterian Church, but resigned his charge in 1917 to go to France with the YMCA until the end of the war, finishing up in Cologne. After the war years he was appointed to the Presbyterian Church in Malaya as relief for the ministers of Kuala Lumpur Church, and afterwards Penang and Singapore.
In the early 1920s he went to Hong Kong and founded a new Union Church on the mainland in Kowloon. He spent eight years there, then returned to the UK. In 1933 he went to the Presbyterian Church in Bellingham, Northumberland, England, where he remained until his call to St George’s Church, Morpeth, Northumberland, England, in 1939. He married Kathleen Edith Duncan in the 3rd quarter of 1929 in Brentford, Middlesex, England. He died on 28th December, 1962, in St Leonards, Hastings, Sussex, England.
(8) Mary Alice Johnston born on 4th May, 1879, in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire. She did some work for the British Syrian Mission. She died in 1978 in St Leonards, Hastings, Sussex, England
Publications
See separate document here.
Sources
Freepages; Bdcconline; Kittybrewster; Ferryhill; The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 21st August 1923, Page 6; Morpeth Herald, Northumberland, England, 10th May, 1946; The Aberdeen Journal, 31st March, 1858; Glasgow Herald, 29th January, 1863; 8th January, 1869; Information from a correspondent
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JOHNSTON, JAMES BARBOUR
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.194
Born, 1815. Licensed by the Presbytery of Dunfermline, 1848. Ordained at Wolflee, 1849. Translated to Warrington, 1862. [In Vol. 2 his surname is Johnstone.]
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Background
He was born about 1815 in Annan, Dumfries-shire, the son of Walter Johnstone, general merchant, and Agnes Carlyle.
Education
He attended the parish school in Howgate, Maxwelltown, from 1821 and Dumfries Academy from 1830. He went to Birmingham, Warwickshire, England in 1835 and worked as a draftsman in an Architect’s office. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1844-47.
Marriage
He married:
(1) Mary Maiben Whyte or White on 25th July, 1839, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. She was born on 19th June, 1818, in Edinburgh, the daughter of Robert White, merchant, and Agnes Bryson.
(2) Janet Stavert. This was recorded in the 4th quarter of 1868 in Altrincham, Cheshire. She was born on 28th May, 1814, in Castleton, Roxburghshire, the daughter of Thomas Stavert, farmer, and Janet Armstrong.
Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Wolflee, Roxburghshire. In 1862 he accepted a call to the English Presbyterian congregation of St. John’s, Warrington, Lancashire, England.
Death
He died on 27th January, 1885, in Dumfries (Registration: 1885 821/ 40 Dumfries) and was buried with his first wife in Hobkirk, Roxburghshire. Mary Maiben White or Johnstone died on 1st July, 1860, at the Free Church Manse, Wolflee, Roxburghshire (Registration: 1860 790/ 14 Hobkirk). Janet Stavert or Johnstone died on 28th October 1900 at Saughtree, Castleton, Roxburghshire (Registration: 1900 784/ 20 Castleton).
Family
They had issue including:
(1) Mary Whyte Johnstone born in the 3rd quarter of 1842 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. She married James Cash in the 3rd quarter of 1866, in Warrington, Lancashire, England. She died in the 1st quarter of 1925 in Bucklow, Lancashire/Cheshire, England.
(2) Robert Whyte or White Johnstone born in the 4th quarter of 1844 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. He married Mary Ann Clark in Dunoon and Kilmun in 1872.
(3) James Carlyle Johnstone born (or baptised) on 31st August, 1846, in Culross, Perthshire. He married Mary Elizabeth Wallace in the 3rd quarter of 1871 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He is said to have died in 1883 – though another source says he died in 1873 in Africa.
(4) Agnes Johnstone born (or baptised) on 31st May, 1848, in Culross, Perthshire. She married Andrew Tait.
(5) Walter Johnstone born (or baptised) on 30th June, 1850, in Cavers, Roxburghshire.
(6) Bryson Johnstone born (or baptised) on 29th September, 1853, in Hobkirk, Roxburghshire. He married Alice who was born about 1863 in County Mayo, Ireland. He was an oriental merchant.
(7) John Carlyle Johnstone born in 1855 in Hobkirk, Roxburghshire. He was educated at private schools in England and Dumfries Academy before entering Glasgow University, from which he graduated M.B., Ch.B., in 1877 and M.D. in 1892. He had a distinguished career in medicine. He died in 1927 in St Andrew, Edinburgh.
(8) Margaret Elliot Johnstone born on 15th August, 1857, in Hobkirk, Roxburghshire. She married John Robert Galloway in 1880.
Besides these, there was an Agnes Frances Johnstone who was born and died in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, in 1840. And there was a William Johnstone who was born and died in Hobkirk, Roxburghshire, in 1860. The former may have belonged to this family; the second one surely was of this family – he died shortly before his mother (the two events may have been related); and this is the only Johnstone family in the parish in the 1861 census.
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 1/4/1885, 2 Glebe Terrace, Dumfries, d. 27/01/1885 at 2 Glebe Terrace, testate, Dumfries Sheriff Court, NRS SC15/41/20
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Johnstone, James Barbour, Johnstone or Stavert, Janet, 7/3/1901, Saughtree, Parish of Castleton, County of Roxburgh, widow, d. 28/10/1900 at Saughtree, testate, Jedburgh Sheriff Court, NRS SC62/44/102; 25/4/1903, Jedburgh Sheriff Court, Eik, NRS SC62/44/104
Source
Genealogy
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JOHNSTON, JAMES BROWN, B.D.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.194
Born at Edinburgh, 1862. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Falkirk, 1888. Married, the same year, Catherine E. Macmichael.
Publication.—Place Names of Scotland.
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Life and Ministry
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 11th November, 1880 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.231). In the Free Church, he served in Falkirk, Stirlingshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.48, where a short biography is given). He retired in 1928.
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JOHNSTON, ROBERT
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.194
Born at Moffat, 1807. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Appointed to Madras, 1838, and ordained the same year. In 1850 Mr. Johnston’s health broke down; he returned home the following year. Died, 1853.
Publication.—Posthumous—True Yokefellows in the Mission Field; or, Memoirs of John Anderson and Robert Johnston. By Rev. J. Braidwood.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1838, Missionary, FES, Vol.7, p.696
Publications – by him
The conversion of the Jews and its bearing on the conversion of the Gentiles, Edinburgh, T. Nelson and Sons, 1853
The redeemer’s last command, Edinburgh, T. Nelson and Sons, 1853
True Yoke-Fellows in the Mission Field, the life and labours of the Rev. John Anderson and the Rev. Robert Johnston, traced in the rise and development of the Madras Free Church Mission, London, J. Nisbet & Co, 1862
Publication – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Robert Johnston
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JOHNSTON, WILLIAM, M.A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.194
Born at Montrose, 1868. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Loanhead, 1895. Married, 1897, Mary Snodgrass.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Loanhead, Midlothian. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.57). Thereafter he served in St Meddan’s, Troon, from 1903 (FUFC, p.134, where a short biography is given). He died in 1926.
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JOHNSTON, WILLIAM, B.A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.194
Born at Kingussie, 1850. Studied at the Universities, Edinburgh and London, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Shieldaig, Ross-shire, 1894.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Shieldaig and Torridon, Ross and Cromarty. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.489). Thereafter he served in Nigg from 1912 (FUFC, p.484, where a short biography is given). He died in 1922.
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JOHNSTONE, EBENEZER
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.195
Born at Biggar, 1796. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, and Divinity Hall, Secession Church. Joined the Church of Scotland, and completed his theological studies at the Divinity Hall, Edinburgh. Was parish schoolmaster at West Calder for two years and then went to Plean, Stirlingshire, as governor of Simpson’s Hospital for old men. Ordained in the chapel-of-ease there, 1839. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Resigned his appointment subsequent to the Disruption, but continued to preach for a time in the open air. Died, 1864.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1839, Plean, FES, Vol.4, p.312; MacKelvie, Annals, p.673
Family
He was a brother of William Johnston. For him see the General Index of Scottish Presbyterian Ministers here and scroll up to “Johnston, William Life and Ministry: 1823, Limekilns”. See references there for other ministers who are relatives.
Publications – by him
Here are two publications of Ebenezer Johnstone: whether this man or not we do not yet know.
Notes of proceedings in the meetings of the Town Council of Stirling, on the 16th of June & 28th of July, 1834, concerning the question of the communion elements money; includes an account of an altercation which took place between Ebenezer Johnstone and the Rev. Mr. Bennie at the council meeting on 28th July 1834, Stirling, E. Johnstone, 1834
A new description of the town and castle of Stirling, with an appendix containing notices of roads, steam-boats, coaches, inns, lodging-houses, Stirling, 1835.
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: Ebenezer Johnstone
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 4/5/1864, sometime minister of the Gospel at Plean thereafter residing at Bannockburn and died there, brother of Revd William Johnstone doctor of divinity, minister of Gospel at Limekilns, father of the late William Johnstone late physician in Islay, Inventory; Deed of Settlement, Stirling Sheriff Court, NRS SC67/36/47; Additional Inventory, Stirling Sheriff Court, NRS SC67/36/49
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JOHNSTONE, GILBERT
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.195
Born at Glasgow, 1817. Studied at the University, Glasgow. Ordained at Mauchline, 1844. Translated to New Cumnock, 1847. Married, 1850, Jane B. Burns. Translated, 1850, to Govan. [Under Govan – Sumerton in Vol. 2 it says he was settled there in 1851.] Joined the Church of Scotland, 1864, and was settled at Shettleston. Died, 1892.
Supplementary Information
Or Gilbert Johnston
Life and Ministry
“Gilbert Johnstone, Glasgow” was a name on the Roll of Probationers adhering to the Free Church. In the Free Church, he served in Mauchline, Ayrshire; New Cumnock, Ayrshire; and Summerton, Govan, Glasgow. Thereafter in Shettleston, FES, Vol.3, p.490; FES, Vol.8, p.311.
Family
Chalmers Guthrie Burns Tree.
Publication – by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites, 5th May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/206
Publications – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 30/9/1892, Minister, Parish of Shettleston, d. 25/08/1892 at Shettleston, testate, Glasgow Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC36/48/138; Will, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/106
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Johnston or Burns, Jane Briggs, 17/10/1911, 31 Peel Street, Partick, widow, d. 27/06/1911 at Tannadice, Forfarshire, testate, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC36/51/156
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JOHNSTONE, JAMES, M.A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.195
Born, 1818. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Aberdeen. He was ordained at Belhelvie, 1857. Married, 1861, Helen G. Lumsdale.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire.
This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.421). He became senior minister in 1905. He died in 1911.
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JOHNSTONE, JAMES
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.195
Born at Croy, Nairnshire, 1861. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Lochranza, Arran, 1888. Married, 1889, Mary Macmillan. Translated, 1896, to Strathpeffer.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Lochranza, Isle of Arran, Bute; and Strathpeffer and Fodderty, Ross and Cromarty. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.481, where a short biography is given).
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JOHNSTONE, JOHN
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.195
Born, 1818. Studied at the New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Balmaghie, 1856. Married, 1859, Isabella Miller. Died, 1878.
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Background
He was born about 1818 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, the son of John Johnstone, seaman, and Elizabeth McCallum.
Education
He matriculated in Glasgow University in 1841. He enrolled in New College, Edinburgh, 1846-50.
Marriage
He married Isabella Miller on 27th December, 1859, in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire (Registration: 1859 503/ 45 Row or Rhu). She was born on 18th November, 1821, in Glasgow, the daughter of George Miller, merchant, and Marion Kerr.
Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire. There was a brief flurry of activity in the courts of the church when a neighbouring minister accused him of unduly delegating the preaching of the Word to other parties. He was apparently using unlicensed preachers. But the General Assembly upheld the Presbytery’s view that Johnstone’s explanation of what had happened was acceptable.
Death
He died on 26th February, 1878, in Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire. His wife died on 22nd December, 1897, in Saltcoats, Ayrshire.
Family
They had issue including:
(1) John Johnston born on 26th December, 1860, in Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire. He died on 23rd December, 1938.
(2) George Miller Johnston born on 7th April, 1863, in Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire. He married Mary Emily Georgina Sage. She was born on 22nd September,1876, in Glamorgan, Gwent, Monmouthshire, Wales. He died on 25th March, 1927, in Auckland, New Zealand.
Publications – by him
Goads and nails, plain sermons by a country presbyter, John Johnston and others, Edinburgh, J. Maclaren, 1861
The cross and the crown: or, Trials and triumphs of the Scottish Kirk, a poem in ten books, Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1871
Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 20/7/1878, Minister, Free Church, Lawrieston, Balmaghie, d. 26/02/1878 at Lawrieston aforesaid, testate, Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court, NRS SC16/41/34
Sources
The Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, 28th May, 1861; Glasgow Herald, 10th January, 1871
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JOHNSTONE, MATTHEW POOL
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.195
Born near Annan, 1843. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Symington, Ayrshire, 1869. Married, 1871, Jane B. Milligan. Translated in 1873 to Hawick; and, 1879, to the Middle Church, Greenock.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Symington, Ayrshire; Hawick; and Middle, Greenock, Renfrewshire. This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.157, where a short biography is given). He retired in in 1907 in order to facilitate local union. He died in 1910.
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JOLLY, ARCHIBALD
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.195
Born, 1840. Son of Rev. T. Jolly, Bowden. Studied at the Universities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, Free Church College, Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained at Walls, Orkney, 1869. Married, 1874, Agnes D. M. Paxton. Resigned, 1876. Afterwards settled at Dunnet, Caithness, where he died, 1889.
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Life and Ministry
He was admitted to the Edinburgh Dialectic Society, 16th February, 1861 (see History of the Dialectic Society, p.213). In the Free Church, he served in Walls and Sandness, Orkney; and Dunnet, Caithness. Thereafter in 1876, Dunnet, FES, Vol.7. p.121; FES, Vol.8, p.677.
Family
Jolly Tree.
Publication – about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 1/8/1889, Minister of Dunnet, County of Caithness, d. 22/05/1889 at Dunnet, testate, Wick Sheriff Court, NRS SC14/40/13
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JOLLY, JAMES
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.195
Born at Marykirk, 1845. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained, 1872, at Hillhead. Translated, 1873, to West Port, Edinburgh. Married, the same year, Georgina Adam. Died, 1880. [Vol. 2 says he finished his ministry there 1886.]
Publication.—Story of the West Port Church.
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Background
He was born on 8th and baptized on 26th June, 1845, in Marykirk, Kincardineshire, the son of John Jolly and Mary Ann Croll.
Education
He was brought up in Dundee. He entered Edinburgh University in 1864 and studied divinity at the Free Church College, Glasgow. During his student days, he did missionary work in Cullen, Banffshire, Dundee, and the Wynd Free Church, Glasgow.
Marriage
He married Georgina Adam on 6th August, 1873, in Cathcart, Glasgow. She was born on 28th April, 1850, in Perth, daughter of George Adam and Jean Constable.
Ministry
He was ordained in Jordanhill, Hillhead, Glasgow, in 1872; and was translated to West Port (Chalmers’ Territorial), Edinburgh in 1873 as colleague and successor to William Tasker, who died in 1879. The call here was disposed of at a special meeting of the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh held on 21st August, 1873. The matter seems to have been hotly contested and when it became obvious that Jolly intended to accept the call, “the commissioners from Hillhead abruptly left the Court.” In 1879 he was elected to Bon Accord, Aberdeen, but he declined the opportunity.
Death
He had not been well for some time and had been abroad for his health in the spring of 1886. He also had been for a break in Arran, Bute, and it was on the way home from there that he died on the evening of 8th September, 1886, at South Edge House, Langside, Glasgow, the house of his brother-in-law. His wife died in 1930 in Elie, Fife.
Family
They had issue including:
(1) Jane Grace Jolly born 25th December, 1874, in Edinburgh. She died on 12th February, 1954, in Burnside Cottage, Ceres, Fife.
(2) Mary Croll Jolly, born on 2nd July, 1876, at 14 Viewforth Terrace, Newington, Edinburgh. She died in China.
(3) William Tasker Adam Jolly, M.D., born on 20th October, 1877, in Lauriston Park, Newington, Edinburgh. He died on 14th July, 1939, in Rondebosch, Cape Town, Cape Province.
(4) George Adam Jolly, M.D., born on 14th June 1879, in Newington, Edinburgh. He died on 7th December, 1943, at Royal Circus, Edinburgh.
(5) John Gray Jolly born on 30th March, 1881, at 12 Granville Terrace, Edinburgh. He died on 8th November, 1948, in Morningside, Edinburgh.
(6) James Robertson Jolly born on 6th April, 1883, at 12 Granvill Terrace, Newington, Edinburgh. He died on 26th March, 1933, at St. George’s Lodge, Earlsferry, Fife.
(7) Eveline Isabell Jolly born on 19th December, 1884, at 10 Westhall Gardens, Newington, Edinburgh. She died on 11th March, 1961, at Burnside Cottage, Ceres, Fife.
(8) Gordon Gray Jolly, M.D., born on 6th April, 1886, in 10 Westhall Gardens, Newington, Edinburgh. He died on 1st March, 1962 in Somerset West, Cape Province.
Publication – by him
The story of the West Port Church, with notices of Chalmers and Tasker, and an account of the territorial method, Edinburgh, Macniven and Wallace, 1882
Publications – about him
Obituary notice on this web-site: James Jolly
James Jolly, Minister of Dr. Chalmers’ Territorial Church, Edinburgh, memorials of an earnest life and faithful ministry, Adam, Hector M., Edinburgh, Macniven & Wallace, 1888
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 25/10/1886, 10 Westhall Gardens, Edinburgh, d. 10/09/1886 at Langside, near Glasgow, testate, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories, NRS SC70/1/253; Will, Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills, NRS SC70/4/220
Sources
Glasgow Herald, 22nd August, 1873; Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 21st February, 1879; The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder, 17th June, 1879
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JOLLY, THOMAS
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.195
Born, 1795. Son of Rev. T. Jolly, Dunnet. Studied at the University, Edinburgh, and Divinity Hall, Aberdeen. In 1816 he became schoolmaster at Thurso. Ordained at Keiss, Caithness, 1827. Mr. Jolly was twice married, his second wife being Elizabeth Robertson. Translated to Bowden, 1829. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. He was laid aside by paralysis in 1856. Became senior minister, 1857. Died, 1859.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1827, Keiss, FES, Vol.7, p.124; 1829, Bowden, FES, Vol.2, p.172. In the Free Church, he served in Bowden, Roxburghshire.
Family
Jolly Tree.
Publication – by him
New Statistical Account, October, 1834, Bowden, Vol.3, Roxburgh, p.34
Publications – about him
Rev. Thomas Jolly of Bowden, Image, 1843–47
The blessedness of the holy dead, being a sermon preached on the occasion of the death of the Rev. Thomas Jolly, Free Church minister of Bowden, on Sabbath, June 12, 1859, James Pirie, M.A., Edinburgh, John Maclaren, 1859
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 20/9/1859, minister of Free Church of Scotland Bowden, Jedburgh Sheriff Court, NRS SC62/44/30 and NRS SC62/44/31
John Scott, schoolmaster, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.277 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Robert Muir, schoolmaster, Midlem, Answers made by Schoolmasters in Scotland, p.278 [See here Parochial Schools – Queries to which these Answers are a response]
Third Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction: Teinds, Appendix 1, Table 7, p.16
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JUBB, THOMAS EDWARD, M.A.
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.195
Born at Dewsbury, Yorkshire, 1854. Studied at the University and Free Church College, Glasgow. Ordained at Luss, 1883.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
In the Free Church, he served in Luss, Dunbartonshire, where he was ordained on 30th October, 1883 (Minutes of Free Presbytery of Dumbarton, NRS, CH3/80/2 ). This ministry was continued in the United Free Church (Fasti of the United Free Church (FUFC), p.274).
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